Vegas and other Lands

El Cerrito is a rather dull little town in Contra Costa Country, about 40 miles from San Francisco. There are small schools, a Safeway store, low-rise apartment buildings, neat front gardens, …

You can hear the dogs from afar, yapping, shrieking, scratching at the walls, not their usual noise at all. Twelve big poodles in torment: a terrifying squeal, high and frantic, hanging in the dry …

To be a Frank Bruno fan these days, you must really take a beating. On a grey Monday morning in the Granary restaurant in Luton airport, five days before the big fight, a large man eating …

Let me ask you a question’, says Steve Wynn, the 56-year-old man who seems to run Las Vegas. ‘If we could build a hotel that, regardless of the century, was clearly, unequivocally, overwhelmingly …

Last month I placed the following listing on eBay, the internet’s best-known auction site. It appeared under the Books (Entertainment) section, and it had a reserve price of £1. I lifted the …

My name is Sanjay, and I was born in Assam. I’m 23 now. I studied in school up to Class 8, but when I was 13 my father lost his job and I was forced to work to help the family. First I joined a …